Comments on: If You’re Trapped With Duct Tape Over Your Mouth, Here’s How to Get It Off

By: Blair

Blair — Mon, 13 May 2013 05:00:13 +0000

Everyone knows that the Ball Gag is the long trusted go to means of shutting someone up temporarily ,duct tape only ever works in the movies,and superglue is much more permanent…

By: bitrat

bitrat — Sat, 11 May 2013 16:09:51 +0000

Wow, gnarly! Around here, home invasion crews have been caught with duct tape, guns and a google map to houses they’re gonna rob……just slightly self-incriminating ;*p
There are many fiendish ways to restrain people…..check out what the cartels do in Mexico for a real lesson……and superglue only works until the person is panicked enough to tear a layer of skin off.
Agreed on the whole Hollywood fakiness…..every explosion looks like what it is…a stick of dynamite under a 55 gallon barrel of gasoline (same used in car crashes). Actual high explosives don’t flame much….just a brief dim flash followed by a little black smoke and a whole hella lotta concussion…..Oh well, did we expect them to show REAL car crashes, explosions, etc? Most people’d probably be bored… ;*p

By: David McDermott

David McDermott — Mon, 06 May 2013 21:07:39 +0000

As you can clearly see, the duct/duck tape doesn’t have to be chewed or even removed. It just plain won’t stick to your bottom lip… not with sufficient force to keep your mouth closed, anyway.
I think I first tried this when I was six.

By: Jairekling

Jairekling — Sun, 05 May 2013 17:25:07 +0000

NEWS FLASH!!!

Kidnapping victim dies from eating an overdose of duck tape!

By: Communinja

Communinja — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:20:09 +0000

Sock or grenade in the mouth, big enough to muffle the sound and force the jaw open. Wrap around full head a couple times, including from jaw to the top of the head. This would prevent the jaw from moving enough to prevent loosening of the tape.

By: Chloe

Chloe — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:47:15 +0000

ok that is funny! WAHWAHWAH oo ducktape yummy!! if someone tries to abduct me and puts duck tape on my mouth im gonna do that XD

By: Ron Milton

Ron Milton — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 16:07:17 +0000

Villain’s will no longer carry duct tape to an crime, it won’t fit into you pockets anyway. A small tube of super glue to glue the lips together is a lot handier and a lot more evil.

By: The Daleks

The Daleks — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:13:44 +0000

After listening to all that background noise, I want to put duct tape over my ears.

By: Jim Marino

Jim Marino — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:25:33 +0000

Better to use a Houdini trick. Just before being taped, subtly puff up cheeks and make an exaggerated closed lip smile. Later, after the tape is on, (even if placed all around around the head) relax the puffwed cheeks and exaggerated smile. This will create a great deal of slack from which you can work to loosen and get the tape away from your mouth.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:11:29 +0000

In fact, as duct tape — that is, to seal ducts — duck/duct tape is pretty inadequate. It dries out quickly and becomes a thready, flakey mess. Self-adhesive aluminum tape is now preferred for duct work.

By: Tamshan

Tamshan — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:40:23 +0000

During World War II, the American armed forces needed a strong, waterproof tape to keep moisture out of ammunition cases. Because it was waterproof, everyone referred to it as “duck” tape (now a brand name of Manco). This versatile tape was used as a mending material that could be ripped by hand and used to make quick repairs to jeeps, aircraft, and other military equipment. The Johnson and Johnson Company’s Permacel Division, which had by then developed its own line of adhesive tapes, helped the war effort by combining cloth mesh (which rips easily) with a rubber-based adhesive, and then gave that combination of rubberized, waterproof coating. (No specific person or group of people at Johnson and Johnson have been named in the development of duct tape).

Following the war, housing in the United States boomed, and many new homes featured forced-air heating and air-conditioning units that relied on duct work to distribute warmth and coolness. Johnson and Johnson’s strong military tape made the perfect material for binding and repairing the duct work. By changing the color of the tape’s rubberized top coat from Army green to sheet metal gray, “duct” tape was born.

WIKIPEDIA is often plain wrong !

By: ekaplan

ekaplan — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:54:08 +0000

Both “duct tape” and “duck tape” are correct. Duck tape was the original name – the term referred to strips of cotton or linen duck fabric.

By: mamatolevi

mamatolevi — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 20:05:13 +0000

this is why home invaders now use superglue on the victms’ mouths. and then for kicks put superglue in the nostrils to kill them.

By: Bnol

Bnol — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 17:14:03 +0000

Hollywood takes a lot of shortcuts with reality. They only use the one piece so that they don’t have to wrap an actor’s head with duct tape, so that they can do more takes quickly, it doesn’t take a long time to unwrap so the scene is quicker, and it is less painful for the actors. Honestly, expecting any reality in Hollywood is foolish.

By: jp5472

jp5472 — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 14:51:17 +0000

No, NASA did not invent and design duct tape!! Duct tape is from the HVAC industry. It’s primary purpose is to seal joints, seams, and openings in HVAC ductwork. Just like anything else, to bolster sales beyond it’s original intended use, it starts getting marketed as a solution for just about everything imaginable. I see the presenter’s point in this video – typically in any movie or TV show, you see one piece of tape applied to the poor soul’s mouth and they are rendered helplessly speechless. It’s obviously Hollywood doing what it does best – selling a downright fairy tale.

As others have pointed out, so what’s to stop the assailant from winding it around your head, overlapping with each rotation? …well, I am not about to try that anytime soon.

And “Duck Tape”, yes, it is a brand of duct tape and a cute little play on words from the company that named their brand that.